Appendix F

Sample BootP Configuration File

This appendix provides a sample BootP configuration file. The BootP server searches for this file, called bootptab (or BOOTPTAB.TXT, depending on your operating system), which contains the site-specific information (including IP addresses) needed to perform the software download and configuration. You can modify this sample BootP configuration file or create one of your own.

A sample BootP configuration file follows:

#The following is a sample of a BootP configuration file that was extracted

#from a Bay Networks EZ LAN network management application. Note that other

#BootP daemons can use a configuration file with a different format.

#

#Before using your switch BootP facility, you must customize your BootP

#configuration file with the appropriate data.

#

#Blank lines and lines beginning with '#' are ignored.

#Legend:

#

#first field -- hostname

#

ht --

hardware

type

#

ha -- host hardware address

#

tc -- template

host (points to similar host entry)

#

ip -- host IP address

#

hd -- bootfile home directory

#

bf -- bootfile

 

# EZ

dt -- device type

# EZ

fv -- firmware version

# EZ

av -- agent version

#

 

 

 

#Fields are separated with a pipe () symbol. Forward slashes (/) are

#required to indicate that an entry is continued to the next line.

#

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